BY Shilanda Woolridge, Ayako Mie/SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco lost Mayor George Mascone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. On the thirtieth anniversary of their assassination, families, friends and supporters of the two men gathered in front of City Hall. Then they marched down to the Castro to hold a rally in front of the store that was once Milk’s camera shop. Many marchers remembered the legacy of the two men who changed San Francisco politics forever.
Ayako Mie/BERKELEY
After more than a year of controversy surrounding placement of cell phone antennas, the Berkeley Planning Commission recommended Wednesday to the city council that only one firm be allowed to install antennas at any one location, and that those antenna frequencies be monitored annually. Read the full story
by Angela J. Bass/OAKLAND
In the small basement auditorium of Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland, congressional leaders, healthcare policy experts and pediatricians, among others, spent Thursday morning in deep conversation over Read the full story
by Paula Lehman/OAKLAND Voters in Oakland, where there have been over 100 homicides so far in 2008, on Tuesday turned down a ballot measure that would have put 105 officers and 75 police services technicians on the street over the course of three years. But it wasn’t a lack of campaigning that ruined Measure NN’s chances; instead, many people believe that it was the unfulfilled promise of an earlier crime-fighting measure that killed this year’s initiative.
By Japhet Weeks/BERKELEY
When 80-year-old Ethel Collins was just out of high school, she had a hard time getting a job in a white company because of the color of her skin. With the help of the NAACP, she was eventually hired.
More than 60 years later, on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2008, Collins watched in her Berkeley home as polls closed across the country. Just after 8 o’clock, CBS projected that Senator Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States and an emotional Collins screamed, “He got it! He got it! Thank you Jesus! He got it!”
by Angela J. Bass/SAN FRANCISCO
Earle Kirkland and Duane Barker spent 17 years in a committed relationship before legally exchanging vows on the marble steps in San Francisco’s City Hall this past June, after the California Supreme Court lifted the ban on gay marriage, calling it unconstitutional. Some 18,000 same-sex couples tied the knot between June 17 and Election Day, when the passage of Prop 8 interrupted honeymoon trips midflight.
“We were very disappointed about the outcome [of Prop 8],” said Kirkland, clutching a picket sign emblazoned with a large, glossy photo of him and Barker kissing on their summer wedding day. “It’s very disappointing that [52 percent of California voters] don’t want to allow us to express our love.”
by Dara Kerr/WEST OAKLAND
The smell of burning rubber and exhaust fumes fills the night air. Girls in stilettos, tight jeans and leather jackets stand around drinking out of plastic cups while every few minutes a biker revs his or her engine and screeches through the crowd. The faint sound of hip-hop pulses under the motorcycle engines.
This is one of Oakland’s black motorcycle club parties – parties that the city is trying to curtail. Last summer, the Oakland Police Department stopped allowing special events permits for motorcycle parties at Historic Sweet’s Ballroom.
By Clayton Trosclair/SAN FRANCISCO
The passage of California Proposition 8 has sparked statewide protests this weekend, with tens of thousands of gay activists marching in big cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as smaller communities that have not traditionally been a hotbed of gay activism.
The measure, which passed on Nov. 4 with 52 percent of the vote, changes the state constitution to take away the right of gays and lesbians to marry.
On Friday in San Francisco, an estimated 5,000 demonstrators marched from Civic Center to the Castro and Dolores Park. Police officers stopped traffic and escorted the crowd down Market Street.
By Ayako Mie/BERKELEY
Berkeley residents passed Measure JJ with a 62.3 percent vote on Tuesday, eliminating certain zoning restrictions on pot clubs and lifting the current 2.5-pound limit on the amount of medical marijuana patients can possess.
By Huda Ahmed/OAKLAND
The Convention Center at the Oakland Marriott Hotel was packed with balloons, drinks, music and citizens rushing into the Exhibit Hall Center. Different races dissolved into one while they cried and cheered as the results of the presidential elections played on two big T.V. screens. After the results were confirmed, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums gave an emotional speech describing Obama’s win as a “historic moment.”
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